Legal Opinion
Davis v. A. H. Reid Creamery & Dairy Supply Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania
Decided February 16, 1911No. 353PublishedCited by 5 opinions
In Equity. Suit by Daniel J. Davis, Stephen J. Davis, Alfred J. Davis, and the Empire Cream Separator Company for and on behalf of themselves and of the Industrial Construction Company against the A. H. Reid Creamery & Dairy Supply Company.
1Opinion of the Court
HOLLAND, District Judge.
This is a suit in equity for infringement of claim 1 of patent No. 521,104, dated June 5, 1894, issued to Daniel J. Davis, for a centrifugal separator for liquids.
The claim is as follows:
“In centrifugal separators for liquids, the combination with the drum having an elongated neck with an outlet therein, of the removable separating dome inclosed liquid tight but detachably by said neck beyond the outlet thereof and interspaced from the drum wall by a suitable stop whereby a free channel is established from the drum interior to the outlet at the neck substantially as…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Burnes v. ScottSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
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